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During the 25 years I was a Real Estate Loan Officer in Marin County, California, the major reason most of my clients chose a 30-year mortgage over a 15-year mortgage was that the payments were higher on a 15-year loan and it often made their Debt to Income Ratios too high to qualify or they were not comfortable with the higher payments on a 15-year loan.After being in the home 5–7 years many of these same buyers would refinance into a 15-year loan to save on interest and also to own their home free and clear faster and have it paid off when they were ready to retire.The people who most often chose a 15-year loan over a 30-year loan were members of these groups:Home buyers who were of Asian ethnicity (for both buying and refinancing their homes).Engineers (for both buying and refinancing their homes).Many homeowners purchased their homes on a 30-year fixed rate loan and paid more each month to apply to the principal only in order to have their loan paid off in 15 years.

She’s partly right. The massive wave of foreclosures during the 2008 mortgage crisis started with millions of people who had bought homes with loans they could not afford from the beginning. Lenders approved their applications for the so-called stated-income loans. The term means that the borrower can simply “state” their income on the loan application, knowing that the lender will not verify it.People were also able to buy homes with no down payment. 100% financing was not a problem in itself, but it did exacerbate the problems later. Someone with little if anything to lose (“skin in the game”) was more likely to walk away from a property when they had trouble making the payments. The combination of payments that may have been unaffordable from the beginning—buyers had inflated their income on the application—became more so when the interest rates began to adjust. Many people had bought loans with “2/28” adjustable-rate mortgages. The designation means that the interest rate is fixed for the first two years, then adjusts every six months for the last 28 years of the loan’s term.This kind of structure may seem innocuous at first. After all, didn’t lenders limit the amount the rate could increase? They did—but the loans often started with an interest-only payment for two years. At the end of that “teaser” period, two things happened. The interest rate increased by 1.5%—and the borrower had to repay the principal along with interest. A $400,000 loan with a starting rate of 5% and a monthly payment of $1,665 (interest only) suddenly increased to 6.5%—and the monthly payment shot up to nearly $2,600. Six months later, the rate increased to 8% (1.5% “cap” every six months), and the payment went up to $2,980.Lenders were making these loans because they knew they would be able to sell them on the secondary mortgage market. For anyone who may not be aware, very few home loans stay with the lender who approved and funded them. Lenders sell their loans at a profit to investors like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. There are others, but these two make up roughly 60% of the home loan marketplace. Lenders make loans that they know they’ll be able to sell. It’s the fundamental business model of the mortgage banking industry.In 2000, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act was signed into law. It deregulated the trading of financial derivatives such as Collateralized Debt Obligations and Credit Default Swaps. Investment banks like UBS, Lehmann Brothers and Goldman Sachs created their own market for so-called “sub-prime” mortgages. Lenders made the loans because they knew they could sell them. The investment banks pooled the loans they bought from lenders into bonds called mortgage-backed securities (MBS). They created derivatives from the MBS—and derivatives of the derivatives—so that determining that the underlying assets (the sub-prime mortgages) were garbage was nearly impossible.The 2000 law deregulating derivatives is still in force, but after the 2008 crash, there is no longer a market for these kinds of sub-prime mortgages. Now that buyers with poor credit, no cash, and a willingness to lie about their income can’t get mortgages anymore, lenders are no longer making the toxic loans that created the crisis.As a small epilogue, I’ll note that the author of the 2000 deregulation, then-Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX), has retired. He is now the CEO of UBS, an investment bank that figured prominently in the crisis and which received some $60 billion in bailout funds to keep it afloat.TL;DR: A repeat of the 2008 imbroglio is highly unlikely because the conditions that enabled it no longer exist. The laws governing lenders’ responsibility to verify borrowers’ ability to repay the loans they receive are more stringent after the passage of the Dodd-Frank reforms in 2010.I hope this is helpful.

In addition to scholarships, Bloc has also partnered up with Skills Fund to offer low, transparent and fixed-rate financing for their bootcamps.Bloc for less than $70 a month: Accepted students have the ability to make interest-only payments while enrolled at Bloc & for two months after completion.No prepayment penalities: You can pay off your loan at any time without any extra fees.Fixed interest rates: Our interest rates for Bloc are fixed at 8.99% for a 3-year loan, and 10.99% for a 5-year loan. We’re also the only bootcamp lender to disclose all terms of your financing (APR, monthly payment, etc) before you even apply for a loan. We’re all about transparency - no teaser rates or gimmicks here.Easy loan calculator: Calculate your interest-only payment and full payment right on our website!